Airplane catches fire after landing in Denver and sends passengers onto the wing while Rauch devours the aircraft

Denver (ap) – a Fire on an airplane American airlines After it had derived the middle of the flight and had landed at the International Airport Denver, the passengers sent the passengers into a wing in a wing in a small evacuation, in which swimming clouds of smoke. Airport officers said 12 people were brought to hospitals with minor injuries.

The country has seen A The latest flood of aviation disasters and tight calls Fears about air travel, although flying remains a safe way to travel. The recent accidents on site contained an airplane that fell and turned around When landing in Toronto and an airplane Japan Airlines that Switched off a parked Delta aircraft while it felt at Seattle Airport.

Flight 1006 was led to Dallas Fort Worth on Thursday, but was diverted to Denver after the crew had reported motor vibrations. It certainly landed around 5:15 p.m., said the Federal Aviation Administration in a statement. An engine on the Boeing 737-800 caught fire when it taxed the goal added the FAA.

The passengers described people who left the plane on the left wing when an engine burned under the right wing and the black smoke surrounded the plane. They set up and, according to the FAA, video material and passenger interviews with slides and ladders, which were transmitted by Bodencrews.

All 172 passengers and six crew members were certainly evacuated, the authorities said. American Airlines referred questions to the 12 people who were brought to local officials to hospitals.

The damaged aircraft was parked behind a hangar at the airport on Friday.

The reports of the passengers about what happened

Passenger Hani Levi said that she felt a “very strong vibration” after the start of the aircraft, followed by an announcement that it had an emergency landing in emergency landing due to an obvious engine problem.

Als das Flugzeug zum Tor steuerte, sah der ehemalige Militärflugzeugmechaniker aus Las Vegas, der auf einem Fenstersitz saß, Rauch aus dem Flügel und dann feuerte. A passenger said he should evacuate, but Levi said some people were panicked and a mother screamed that she had to get out with her two children, one of whom tried to run to the front of the plane, she said.

Black smoke fulfilled the cabin when people overcrowded the exit, but Levi had to stay seated because a disabled woman was between her and the corridor. When they were waiting for a wheelchair, Levi looked black smoke and flames from the wing of only feet from their seat. People were heard as Levi got out of the plane from the plane, one person “neat, decent” and another said: “Go go”.

“I decided to stay calm,” said Levi, who said she didn't try to breathe deep so as not to breathe so that she was breathing in.

“Really, I just wanted to make sure that we were sure to be here and didn't know whether it would happen or not,” said Friedman “I don't want anyone.”

Twelve people were treated and released in the University of Colorado in Aurora on Thursday evening, the hospital announced on Friday.

A replacement plane and the crew brought passengers to Dallas-Fort Worth, said the airline. The flight landed on Friday at 5 a.m., according to the flight tracking of flightsware.

How often are aircraft engine fires?

In an explanation, American Airlines said that after the taxi, the flight on the goal was an issue in connection with the engine. There was no immediate clarification when the plane caught fire.

Motor fires are rare, and the crews that have been trained for them were said to be the airfare Steven Wallace. As a rule, they are not catastrophic, even if they appear in the air because aircraft can fly with a single engine, he said.

“A pilot that works for an airline today could probably fly for 30 years and never experience engine failure,” said Wallace, former director of the FAA accident investigation office.

Two engine fires have made news in the past few weeks: a fire on A United Airlines flight February 2, since it was prepared for it, from Houston and A March 1st Fire on a Fedex freight Airplane that made an emergency landing in New Jersey after a bird strike.

The former chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, James Hall, said that the reported motor vibrations on the American flight were unusual, but a number of problems could have caused it and a fire, which makes it difficult to speculate.

With regard to the latest flood of aviation incidents “you can classify the past as unusual in the past,” said Hall, but “I don't know if you have enough information to draw conclusions.”

The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board said they will examine.

The aircraft was built in 2012 with a CFM engine. Boeing rejected a comment and CFM did not immediately answer a request for comment.

In an explanation, American Airlines thanked his employees and first aiders “for their quick and decisive action” after the accident.

Ian Paisley, who lived in Colorado, flew with his family from Denver to Hawaii on Friday and heard about the fire on Thursday, but did not believe that it would change her plans.

“We can be confident that for most of us it is terrible things that happen and for people are very scary that it will not be something that influences our life,” he said.

___ Brumfield reported from Washington and Brown from Billings, Montana.

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This story was corrected to say that Levi said she tried not to breathe too deeply to avoid breathing.